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| Thread ID: 127316 | 2012-10-17 00:05:00 | Webhosting/Email | swazi (16894) | Press F1 |
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| 1307320 | 2012-10-17 07:12:00 | Office 365 Exchange on Plan 1 comes to about $6.11 per user per month. This gives you a 25gb mailbox and all the other basic features, www.microsoft.com But as I said, you need to know what you're doing in Exchange as a lot of managements features are only available via the Exchange Shell. But you can't beat free and unless you know the benefits of exchange Google Apps will do you just fine. Especially if you've been using POP up to now. DNS/NS Change: 1. Make sure the zone file is set up on the new host before the change 2. Before changing the MX records (to point to Google/365) make sure all the mailboxes/aliases etc are set up on the new host Once a DNS change is made it's not an instant fix to reverse it :) |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1307321 | 2012-10-18 06:59:00 | Openhost is also webdrive, webbase, Domains4less, Hosting Direct and Flexihost now. Do you know if everything on flexihost is still hosted in chch? I'm with them and haven't noticed any changes. The previous owner/founder used to live next door to me. Was top notch service at the time but will wait and see what happens. |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 1307322 | 2012-10-18 18:45:00 | just wondering.. why gmail rather than Openhost hosting the email ?? Because their Spam filtering is rubbish. You'd get loads of spam. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1307323 | 2012-10-18 18:46:00 | Do you know if everything on flexihost is still hosted in chch? No. Its with Openhost now. They didn't change anything - yet. Eventually it will become Openhost though. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1307324 | 2012-10-18 21:03:00 | Yeah the spam management as well as the Domain Control Panel are some pretty awesome reasons for going with Gapps! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1307325 | 2012-10-29 03:04:00 | Hi guys Further to all your help above, I changed my email and webhosting about 10 days ago from ihug to openhost and it all went very well so thanks for your help! I managed it I think without losing any emails by setting all the existing email accounts with ihug to autoforward to gmail and then also setting up a catch-all email with openhost to autoforward to gmail as well while the transfer happened and while I set up the accounts with openhost. All worked well. Now, as a few mentioned above, I have discovered that the spam filtering with openhost is not ideal and I also noticed that during the approx 24hrs while emails were changing over and going to gmail that gmail was very successfully sorting out the spam from the good emails. So now I want to switch the email hosting from openhost to google apps and have started to create a google apps account but have a few more questions... 1) What is the easiest option to verify ownership of the domain with openhost? 2) Once domain ownership is verified I assume I can direct email to google apps instead of openhost at a LATER date rather than having to do it all at the same time? The reason being that one of our staff is travelling and I want to do it when everyone is in the office rather than trying to change their email client settings remotely. 3) Is redirecting the email to google apps mail difficult and complicated? I can follow instructions ok but the main fear I now have with google apps is if I do have a problem I will never be able to speak to a real person for help. Thanks |
swazi (16894) | ||
| 1307326 | 2012-10-29 03:40:00 | 1) I always just add a TXT DNS entry, it's pretty straight forward. 2) Correct 3) No. Just create all the applicable users / passwords, set your DNS TTL to something really low (eg from 4 hours down to 10 minutes), then after what it *previously* was (eg 4 hours) you can change your MX records (Mail DNS records) to point to the Gapps as shown here: support.google.com If you *do* get stuck, you can always post here, or the Google support forums are surprisingly decent. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1307327 | 2012-10-29 06:26:00 | just wondering.. why gmail rather than Openhost hosting the email ?? it seems to be built into their pricing Because their spam filter sucks. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1307328 | 2012-10-29 08:22:00 | 1) I always just add a TXT DNS entry, it's pretty straight forward. 2) Correct 3) No. Just create all the applicable users / passwords, set your DNS TTL to something really low (eg from 4 hours down to 10 minutes), then after what it *previously* was (eg 4 hours) you can change your MX records (Mail DNS records) to point to the Gapps as shown here: support.google.com If you *do* get stuck, you can always post here, or the Google support forums are surprisingly decent. Thanks Chill. I got the domain verified by adding a TXT DNS record - yes that was very straight forward. I think I will have to do some reading on DNS TTL and MX records etc as this is all like a foreign language to me. I wont be able to do it until next week anyway but no doubt I will be back with more questions! Thanks for your help. |
swazi (16894) | ||
| 1307329 | 2012-10-29 10:06:00 | Basically a TTL is how long other places should "cache" your DNS records. When you're changing, it's sometimes beneficial to decrease the time that your DNS is cached. I've mostly done smaller companies where they've no cared much but for others where it's pretty crucial it all changes over in one go, that's worthwhile doing. MX Records are basically your way of telling the world "Go here to deliver mail to me for @mydomain.com". In your case, you're saying "Go here to Orcons servers". |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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